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We have lots of animals at the land. There are bears, cougars, rattlesnakes, coyotes,
beavers, a myriad of birds and the white-tail deer are ubiquitous. I've been keeping a
Critter Log for sometime; here a few highlights:
- Once I saw an ermine (all white with a small black patch at the tip of her tail)
bounding across the snow on the back-80.
- Hiking there in the spring, I startled a grouse. She flew away to divert my
attention from her nest - which I found in the grasses nearby with two eggs.
- Scotty was strambling up some rocks and pulled one loose. A baby bat had been
wedged between that rock and another one. She had crimson-orange wings.
- We had a pack rat in the yurt. She really did stash stuff away in her
favorite spots - things she particularly liked including some shiny brass hooks,
some lego pieces, an odd assortment of nesting material and - poor thing - the
decon we had to put out to kill her.
- As I was walking out to the van one time, I saw movement underneath it. A
rattlesnake was curled up in the shade. She had very distinctive and beautiful
markings on her tail and we saw her several times that weekend around the yurt.
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